TOP PICK FRIED ACCEPTS $3 MILLION BONUS

OAKLAND 
Padres Assistant General Manager Chad MacDonald said Friday that he is confident all the Padres’ top picks will come to terms with the club after No. 1 Max Fried accepted a $3 million bonus to sign.

“We’re making excellent progress,” said MacDonald.

Thus far, the Padres have announced the signing of nine of the 14 players they drafted in the first 10 (plus supplemental) rounds.

Fried, 18, was the most notable signee announced Friday.

But the Padres also signed four other picks from the top 10 rounds, highlighted by catcher-first baseman-outfielder Dane Phillips of Oklahoma City University. Phillips was the 70th overall pick and the Padres’ second, second-round pick — coming as compensation for losing closer Heath Bell (to Miami) through free agency.

Also signing with the Padres from the top 10 rounds of the draft were shortstop Jalen Goree (sixth round), right-handed pitcher Ramon Madrid (seventh round) and infielder River Stevens (ninth round).

Under baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement, the Padres have just under $9.91 million to spread among the players they drafted in the first 10 rounds. Each pick has an assigned value, although clubs are allowed to go over the slot on any individual player and up to 40 percent below the slot on any player they tender a contract.

The signing deadline has also been moved up a month and is July 13 this season.

“The new rules make it interesting,” Padres General Manager Josh Byrnes said. “I like them. I know where we stand. Everyone knows where they stand.”

Jankowski is playing with Stony Brook University in the College World Series.

The 18-year-old Fried was 8-2 with a 2.02 ERA this season for Harvard-Westlake High School in Studio City. He had 105 strikeouts against 29 walks and 43 hits allowed in 66 innings. Fried played in the Perfect Game All-American Classic last year at Petco Park and was rated as the top left-handed pitcher in the draft.

Fried, who had a commitment to UCLA, is just the third high school pitcher selected by the Padres with their first pick since 1987. Fried was rated as having the best command among high school pitchers in the draft.

Phillips received a signing bonus of $450,000. Third-round pick Fernando Perez, a shortstop with roots at Otay Ranch High, received $400,000, and fifth-round pick Mallex Smith, a center fielder, received $375,000. Goree received $100,000.

Forsythe “day to day”

Second baseman Logan Forsythe missed a second straight start Friday night with “abdominal side discomfort,” and Padres manager Bud Black said he might miss three to four starts.

“You can draw some similarities to the injury Will Venable suffered but not a lot,” Black said while discussing Forsythe. Venable last week missed four starts with what the Padres first feared might be an oblique strain. But treatment kept Venable off the disabled list.

Forsythe thinks he suffered the injury Tuesday night on the play that he stopped a Miguel Olivo grounder from rolling into right — saving the Padres a run in a 5-4 victory.

“It’s a tweak in my side, not a full-out strain,” said Forsythe. “It’s kind of the same sort of thing that Will had.”